To ask if you still watch Woody Allen films?

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I introduced DS (20) to “The Purple Rose of Cairo” last night and it sailed effortlessly into his top 10.

I said “this must be the last one Farrow did before it all kicked off” and he said “don’t tell me what kicked off, it would spoil it”

Bloody love that one. It’s gorgeous.

I can't watch them now, shame.

Never liked them, that guy has always been a creep and it shows in his films. He makes my skin crawl.

I love that film, one of my favourites.

Have you seen purple rose Delphinium?

i can’t watch the ones he acts in where he is dating a beautiful woman - it’s absurd. But this one is all sweetness.

I don't any more, avoid anything Roman Polanski is involved in as well.

I love that film. I haven’t watched a Woody Allen film in a long time. It’s sad, but they’re tainted now.

Love that film. I always hated his other films and as a young teen remember finding him odious. I don't know if I could watch PROC now.

I think for me it’s like blasting out Be My Baby. You focus on her (Ronnie) not him.

for me PROC is all about Mia Farrow.

Bit like Chinatown - one of the best films ever made in my view but can’t enjoy watching it or any W.Allen stuff now

His movies are all the same, written for him, about him, in spite of him, etc. He's a creep and I can't understand why anyone could think otherwise! I felt this way before I heard about his abuse.

Kind of told us who he was in Manhattan, no?

I would love a modern day take on city life in the same way he did his stuff though - gentle, quirky, observant - there has to be a space for this.

I haven't watched any for ages, but I probably would - my view of things like film is they weren't just the work of the problematic person, so many other people were involved as well and we shouldn't consign really great examples of an art to the bin forever because a lead actor, director etc was a terrible human being.

Love Woody Allen films and still watch the good ones.

Nah. All his movies are completely overrated and same-y. There are only so many times you can watch the same story in which Allen casts himself as the neurotic, narcissistic, perverse, love interest of some stunning woman who is instantly drops her pants at first sight of a short, balding, irritating man, which you are meant to believe is 100% realistic and when he got too old for even his biggest fans to believe this, he simply cast a younger, attractive actor to play "his" character.

I think the last Allen film I watched was Bullets Over Broadway which was an amazing movie.

I don't go out of my way to watch his movies but if that came on and I had nothing else on, I'd watch it again.

Just can't enjoy them any more, there's too much of him in them. I'm quietly confident that a lot more information will come out about him after his death and his victims will finally feel vindicated.

Midnight in Paris is one of my favourites.

I can separate the art from the artist and feel sorry for those who can't.

Imagine never being able to enjoy the wonders of a Caravaggio painting...

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i love that film so much. Everything about it, the music, the tone, the pace, the cinematography, Michael Sheen, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Stein, Loutrec, Degas ❤️

it’s my romantic dream (sans tuberculosis!)

I would like to see Sleeper again. Don't know the others so well. Some of his films I never liked or got (eg., Annie Hall)

Ronan Farrow is a capable journalist.

I've read a lot of comments from various family members about 'the scandal'.

Soon-Yi is my age. She seems like a confident strong person. I don't perceive that she's deluded or dominated in any way. The wider (ex) family itself is completely divided about what happened, I don't think it's my place to take sides.

I wouldn't because they are now so dated. I still watch jeepers creepers. The Who was playing right by our house, I like them but wouldn't go because of Pete Townshend. I don't believe his explanation of why he had child abuse images. I do listen to Bowie and we've all overlooked Elvis's liking for 13/14 year olds and the Stones. It's a tough one.

I liked Cafe Society (2016).

I’ve lost track of the sheer number of them in recent years, but I still like some — Annie Hall, Husbands and Wives, Hannah and her Sisters. The quality has gone down sharply in his more recent films, though. Even Blue Jasmine works mostly because of a strong cast, and I’ve never cared for his period films at all. I started to watch Celebrity recently and stopped after ten minutes. Kenneth Branagh playing WA was deeply off-putting.

I agree with a pp, though. I wish there was someone else making the kinds of clever, articulate films he was making at his best. I suppose some Noah Baumbach..?

I watch them. Love Blue Jasmine, Midnight in Paris.etc

Like others I can separate the art from the person.

There are still millions of people adoring Michael Jackson etc despite that awfulness. I despise his music & smeay have so no conflict there for me

Woody Allen has not actually been convicted of anything & there's division even within his own immediate family so I'm in no position to know what happened there

Soon-Yi went on to study in Harvard or Stanford if memory serves me right & I think there must have been opportunities to leave if things were bad or she was being coerced

That should say always have - don't know what 'smeay' means!!